Thread: [Debian] ANNOUNCE: Easy Debian Turbo-Charged Edition!
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dgweud is offline dgweud
2009-10-29 , 23:48
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Originally Posted by qole View Post
Yes, Maemo 5 has a desktop environment called Hildon that is loosely based on the GTK+ toolkit, like Gnome, but unlike Gnome (or even previous versions of Maemo), they have broken the UI in many places to the point where just about every desktop app that I have tried is unusable in at least one core area.

Does this mean that they are using some custom GUI library that replaces GTK+, but is not 100% compatible? If so, I'm sure you have considered installing Debian's own GTK libraries in a chrooted environment; why did this not work?

I also find it strange they are using GTK when Nokia is in control of QT at this point.

I am very excited for the n900 to come out. If I can get my cell carrier to subsidize the price of the device ($500+ is a bit much), I would love to join you in hacking the device.


EDIT: I think I misunderstood you on GTK. Do you mean that Hildon is not taking the dialog boxes' hints into consideration? (Something along the lines of _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE). By the way. are the Hildon sources available to the community?
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